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Track: Berlin Post-Punks Kamoos release new single, Orang-Utans
Berlin-based post-punks Kamoos have returned, with a new line up, indcluding members of the Three Marias and Voodoo Beach, but still fronted and led by London-born front woman, Juliette Wallace. They’ve just released their new single – Orang-Utans, and with it comes a video shot by Juliette in lockdown. Dark and moody, Orang-Utans creeps and …
Track: Matt Robertson – ‘Kalimba’: a grand, chattering, acid sweep
GROWING up listening to a mixture of Jean-Michel Jarre and Jimmy Smith, Matt Robertson certainly had a good early primer in the weirder beauties of music; big-screen synthesiser worlds, the grooviest, cinematic organ jazz (you mean you haven’ heard Jimmy Smith’s The Cat?) After university, Matt matriculated into the world of the recording studio. He’s worked …
Track: Aetherian release an environmental friendly track ‘Primordial Woods’
Melodic death metallers Aetherian released a new single, ‘Primordial Woods’ featuring the distinctive vocals of Sakis Tolis of Rotting Christ. The band states of the song: “These past few years our planet is experiencing a rapid change of the global climate. The extent of fires in Australia, the Amazon rainforest and the Siberian boreal forest, …
Track: Harker – The Beast Must Die
Brighton, UK punk rock band Harker have shared a new single ‘The Beast Must Die’. The track is taken off the band’s upcoming LP ‘Axiom’ out April 23rd on Wiretap Records, Disconnect Disconnect Records, Shield Recordings, Fixing A Whole Records. “The Beast Must Die’ is based on the idea of ‘Mono-consciousness’ by English writer Colin Wilson – as a philosopher, Wilsons writing …
Track: Evil Drive – We Are One
Finish melodic metal band Evil Drive have shared a new track ‘We Are One’, taken from the upcoming album ‘Demons Within’ due 2nd April via Reaper Entertainment. Announcing the track with clattering cymbals and a wall of sound from the guitars. The melodic lead playing for the chorus sounds great underneath Viktoria Viren’s death growl …
See: Eydís Evensen – ‘Wandering II’: gliding pastoralism from Icelandic composer
SONY is venturing into the world of modern composition and has set up a new imprint, XXIM Records, to issue musics from that liminal space where classical abuts ambient and experimental; its first signing is the Icelandic composer and pianist Eydís Evensen. Eydís hails from the remote town of Blönduós in the north of Iceland. …
See: Tristan Kasten-Krause – ‘Dawn Looming’: delicious dronescapes for a new day
NEW YORK-based bassist and composer Tristan Kasten-Krause likes to mix it up, see a little of the creative world. As well as being active on the Big Apple’s DIY and experimental scenes, he’s also played in Oklahoma!, in a production running on Broadway, which gives you any idea of his breadth and scope culturally. He …
Album Review: Rising bassist Mauricio Morales releases debut long player, ‘Luna’
‘Luna’ is the debut album from rising jazz bassist and composer, Mauricio Morales. It’s a conceptual work that echoes with the sounds of spring, childhood innocence, and a beautiful tapestry of cinematic string arrangements worthy of the highest merit. A odyssey through time, movement and everything in between. Unlike quite a few contemporary instrumental jazz …
Track: Total Massacre release the blistering hardcore punk of ‘Pro-Life Death Cult’
In the past few years, Los Angeles’ Total Massacre have been waving the flag of socio-political lyrical infiltration for the punk rock paradigm. With two albums at their fans’ retrieval, the latest being The System Works… from 2019, they have taken in part of releasing a slew of singles since then. While there is no hint to …
EP: Clara Mann – ‘Consolations’ – Bristol newcomer’s exquisite debut EP
‘Soft, I will say it softly’, Clara Mann opens on ‘Thoughtless’. The lyric encapsulates this, her debut EP via Sad Club Records. Plaintive, classic “almost folk”, quiet, private and intimate, ‘Consolations’ has an almost pictorial quality. You see yourself in the world Mann creates. It’s almost as if you stand sadly with her as she …